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The study of differentiable manifolds and differentiable maps. One fundamental problem is that of classifying manifolds up to diffeomorphism. Differential topology is what Poincaré understood as topology or “analysis situs”.
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Do (3+1)-dimensional Lorentzian manifolds admit unique smoothings?
Of course, 3-dimensional topological manifolds admit unique smoothings while 4-dimensional topological manifolds generally do not. A (3+1)-dimensional topological Lorentzian manifold (definition below …
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Is the wildness of 4-manifolds related to the diversity of their fundamental groups?
$n = 4$ is the smallest dimension such that the fundamental group of a closed $n$-manifold can be any finitely-presentable group (leading e.g. to various undecidability results stemming from the undec …
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Does there exist a closed manifold with vanishing reduced rational cohomology but nonvanishi...
Question: Let $p$ be an odd prime. Does there exist a closed manifold $M$ with $\widetilde H^\ast(M; \mathbb Q) = 0$ but $\widetilde H^\ast(M; \mathbb F_p) \neq 0$?
When $p = 2$, an example is given b …
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Are "most" spaces aspherical?
There's a heuristic idea that "most" closed manifolds $M$ are aspherical (i.e. $\pi_{\geq 2}(M) = 0$). Does this heuristic extend usefully to all spaces -- or at least to all finite CW complexes?
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Converse to Stokes' Theorem
Does satisfying Stokes' Theorem imply that a form is linear?
Let $M$ be an $n$-manifold. A differential $k$-form $\omega \in \Omega^k M$ assigns to each point $x \in M$ a function $\omega_x : \Lambda …
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Do smooth manifolds admit unique cubical structures?
It seems to me that a smooth manifold should admit the structure of a cubical complex by Morse theory, since handle attachments seem to be perfectly cubical maps.
Is this cubical structure "essential …
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What is the weakest negative curvature condition ensuring a manifold is a $K(G,1)$?
The only statement I'm sure of is that any hyperbolic or Euclidean manifold is a $K(G,1)$ (i.e. its higher homotopy groups vanish), since its universal cover must be $\mathbb H^n$ or $\mathbb E^n$. Bu …
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What is this analogy between manifolds and bundles (or schemes and locally free sheaves)?
There's a kind of analogy between the way manifolds work and the way bundles work. Let me try to give some examples of the analogy (although there may be better ones). I'll stick to smooth manifolds a …
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